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Does it HAVE to be an either/or?
We tell people who are in cars to wear seatbelts. We say people working on construction sites have to wear hard hats and work boots. We tell people who are going into the mountains to bring transponders and other avalanche gear. So what’s the big deal about wearing a helmet to protect your head.

Roxanne, is riding your bike really as dangerous as wandering along cliffs in the mountains or working on a construction site with metal swinging overhead? If I had ever thought it was, I would never have gotten on one… when I was 5.